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Fear
And this, this is fear in all its forms, lovingly incised. . .Poetry: Life, K+, English, words: 257, favs: 2, 7/30/2008
3 Small Sacrifices
I wish you had returned my anger, even in the same crumpled green envelope, even with a 'postage due' stamp you expected me to pay . . .Poetry: General, K+, English, words: 154, favs: 2, 5/12/2008
4 Six Suites for Cello
The notes loop around the years, curving awkward arcs into your arms. You forget to notice your tendons scrounging coins in the gutter. . .Poetry: General, K+, English, words: 230, 4/20/2008
7 Why I Can't Draw Your Eyes
It's the sudden-fleshless- pucker. . .Poetry: General, K, English, words: 67, 3/4/2008
4Dear Void
I want to be the black hole, the center of a swirling galaxy of good and evil compressing itself into the impossibly opaque bowl of a girl always asking for more. . ."Poetry: Life, K, English, words: 194, favs: 1, 2/27/2008
5 Insomnia
A hundred fragments rattle their cage bars, and I can't sleep for the inspiration.Poetry: Life, T, English, Poetry, words: 91, 4/17/2007
2 Murder at 3 am
Why don't bodies ever wait 'til morning?Poetry: Life, K+, English, Poetry, words: 81, 4/16/2007
7 The Mythic Lolita
And she fancies herself a young Lolita, awkward elegant and stepping over her supplicants.Poetry: Life, T, English, Drama & Poetry, words: 103, favs: 3, 2/17/2007
8 Weightless
Let's pretend we don't exist beyond our cellophane tissue and the thrumming of our minds...Poetry: Life, K, English, Drama & Poetry, words: 77, favs: 2, 2/7/2007
5 Rooftops
When the world stirred the dust of chasms in his chest, he coughed chords to make the landlord cry...Poetry: Life, K+, English, Drama & Poetry, words: 122, 1/31/2007
8 Parallel Conversation
Our talks aren't knotted together anymore, but free float in a selfabsorbed bubble.Poetry: General, K, English, Poetry, words: 32, favs: 3, 1/19/2007
6 CityWalking
In six nights she was nocturnal, each dawn creasing rougher behind dilated eyes...Poetry: Life, K, English, Poetry, words: 92, favs: 2, 1/19/2007
5 Reaching Up And Over
I want a morning, spent in loose change and the pluckedstring closeness of bodies feigning sleep...Poetry: Life, T, English, Romance & Drama, words: 102, 1/17/2007
6 The Dangers of Standing Still
You knew you'd settle, or claimed you did, but someday arrived ten minutes too early, and now you're caught unawares in a place you know absolutely everything about.Poetry: Life, K, English, Drama, words: 121, favs: 2, 1/16/2007
7 The Pillow Sea
I asked, once, why she anchored her storms to a fort of child's fantasies. The better to ease my fall from dreams...Poetry: Life, K, English, Poetry, words: 86, favs: 4, 1/7/2007
8 A Cold, Cold Night
It's a cold, cold night, without piano notes to warm the air. I wonder, are we still even?Poetry: Love, T, English, Romance & Drama, words: 154, favs: 4, 1/4/2007
6 Portents
Only the saltine bones of the old can shaman say when rain will come...Poetry: Life, K, English, Drama & Poetry, words: 36, 1/3/2007
8 The End Result of Love
Photography as a proclamation of love, never given, never taken.Poetry: Love, T, English, Romance, words: 117, favs: 3, 1/1/2007
4 Photoshopping Memories
So easy to smooth the image's edges, blur the lines until there is just a mass of color, clay for the memory's molding...Poetry: Life, T, English, Romance & Drama, words: 155, favs: 2, 12/29/2006
3 The Anniversary of a Death
It's been a long time since you've been gone, and for 364 other days I can convince myself the time has lapsed and folded neatly, but there's always that one day when the wound reopens, fresh and salty all at once.Poetry: Love, K+, English, Tragedy, words: 83, 12/29/2006